In this exercise, we're going to visit the remaining Contrast modes that is…Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light and Hard Mix.…Now, I was saying that Overlay through Hard Light, they all apply different…variations on the Multiply and Screen mode.…So there are different multipliers going on inside of each one of these…equations, but they're based on Multiple and Screens.…So you're multiplying the darkest details, screening the lightest details, that…changes once we move over to Vivid Light.…So Vivid Light is assigning color burn to the darkest details and color dodge to…the lightest details and as a result, not surprisingly, I don't think if we…understand how color burn and color dodge work, we are getting a more…translucent effect for one thing, so were not getting quite as much opacity as…we got out of hard mix and we're also expanding the contrast of the effect and…we're seeing these overly saturated color values as well.…

Now, if you want to rein in the colors and potentially enhance the effect…

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9/30/2010

In the all-new Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery, the third and final installment of the popular series, join industry expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland for an in-depth tour of the most powerful and empowering features of Photoshop CS5. Discover the vast possibilities of traditional tools, such as masking and blend modes, and then delve into Smart Objects, Photomerge, as well as the new Puppet Warp, Mixer Brush, and HDR features. Exercise files accompany the course.